JP2863507B2 - Drug storage and removal device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to drug agent storage removal device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a tablet storage device having a plurality of tablet feeders and allowing tablets discharged from each tablet feeder to drop onto a hopper, a device described in JP-A-60-172602 has been conventionally known. Known from.

Incidentally, the tablet storage device described in the above publication has a configuration in which a plurality of tablet feeders arranged in a horizontal direction are provided in multiple stages in a vertical direction and a plurality of tablet feeders are arranged on a vertical plane. There is a problem that it is not possible to cope with taking out many kinds of tablets due to a small number of tablets.

In order to solve the problem, Japanese Utility Model Publication No.
In the tablet storage and take-out apparatus described in Japanese Patent No. 3761, a plurality of shelves are provided in multiple stages in a vertical direction on each of a plurality of drawers provided so as to be able to be pulled out from the inside of the box body, and a plurality of tablets are provided on each shelf. The feeder is attached.

[0005]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]
In the tablet storage and unloading device described in Japanese Patent No. 3761, it is necessary to supply the tablets to the tablet feeder by pulling out the drawer to the front of the box. For this reason, a space for enabling the drawer to be drawn out must be secured at the installation place of the tablet storage and unloading device, and there is a disadvantage that a large installation space is required.

Also, a plurality of the drawers are provided in the left-right direction of the box, a plurality of ducts are provided between adjacent drawers for dropping tablets sent from each tablet feeder downward, and a hopper is provided below the ducts. The distance from the lower end opening of each duct to the outlet provided at the center of the hopper is different, and the discharge time until the tablets dropped from each duct onto the hopper move to the hopper outlet is uneven. is there.

Usually, tablets discharged from the outlet of the hopper are packaged by a packaging device.
If the discharge time of the tablets in the hopper is not uniform, it is necessary to operate the packing device at a low speed in accordance with the longest discharge time, and there is a disadvantage that the packing operation cannot be performed efficiently.

[0008] Therefore, the present invention is to solve the above disadvantages, that promote condensation ginger installation space of pharmacists storage and take-out device for quantitatively discharge the medicament tablets or the like as the first technical problem, in the hopper that achieve uniform discharge time of pharmacists is the second technical problem.

[0009]

In order to solve the above-mentioned first problem, in the first invention, the axis is oriented vertically.
The cylindrical drum is supported rotatably around its axis.
In the circumferential direction and the vertical direction on the outer peripheral surface of the drum.
Attaching a plurality of pharmacists feeder for quantitatively discharge the drug, before Symbol drum, communicating with the drug agent outlets of the tablet feeder window
And a drop plan that guides the fall of the drug discharged from the window
An inner path is provided, and each drop guide path is located below the drum .
A common collection hopper for medicines falling from
The rotation support member that rotatably supports the
A configuration is provided that is provided on the outer diameter side of the drum from the position of the road .

In order to solve the second problem, a second
In the invention, in pharmaceutical dosage storing and dispensing apparatus comprising a structure of the, the collecting hopper, dropped from the drop guide path
Transfer the drug to the drum axis, and
It is configured to discharge from

[0011]

[Action] By configuring as above, it is possible to place the drug dosage feeder densely, thereby rotating the drum
By, Dora replenishment pharmacist for each drug dosage feeder
Can be performed from the outer periphery one place of beam, it is not necessary to secure a large space for installing the pharmacist storing and dispensing apparatus.

In addition, the medicine falling into the collection hopper is
Move over the axis of the ram and discharge from the outlet at the lower end
It makes it possible to achieve uniform discharge time of drug agents within the hopper.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[0014] as shown in Figure shown, the drum storage box within 1
Are provided with upper and lower support plates 2, 2 ' as rotating support members .
Is, the drum 4 is provided on the axis of the circular hole 3 formed in the support plates 2, 2 '.

The drum 4 is composed of a plurality of cylindrical cylinders 5 combined in a cylindrical shape, and the inside of each of the rectangular cylinders 5 is a drug drop guide path 6.

The drum 4 has upper and lower discs 7 and 8, and a lower hole 8 is formed with a drop hole 9 which communicates with the drop guide path 6 of the rectangular cylinder 5. Also, each of the disks 7, 8
The upper disc 7 is rotatably supported by a plurality of rollers 10 supported by the support plates 2 and 2 ′ of the box 1, and the upper disc 7 is rotated by a driving device 11.

As the driving device 11, any one can be adopted. Here, a gear 12 is formed on the outer periphery of the upper disk 7, and a pinion 13 meshed with the gear 12 is rotated by a motor 14. I have to.

[0018] The outer periphery of the drum 4 a plurality of pharmacists feeder 20 provided adjacent to the circumferential direction are provided in multiple stages in the vertical direction.

[0019] Here, pharmacists feeder 20, as shown in FIG. 3, a support base 21 which is attached by means of screws or the like to the drum 4, detachably supported pharmacists housed on the support base 21 consists casing 22 and pharmacists lid 23 attached to an upper portion of the housing case 22., rotatably mounted rotor 24 inside the pharmacist housing case 22, provided with a plurality of pockets 25 on the outer periphery of the rotor 24 is there.

Further, mounting the rotary drive motor 26 of the rotor 24 in the support base 21, the rotor 24 is rotated pharmacists filled medication agent into the housing case 22 to enter the pocket 25 by the motor 26, than pharmacists outlet 27 formed of the drug agent in the bottom of the pharmacist housing case 22 so that thereby one by one discharge.

[0021] The drug agent outlet 27 communicates with the passage 28 formed in the support base 21, also the passage 28 communicates with the window 29 formed in the outer wall of the square tubular body 5.

[0022] Thus, pharmacists fed from pharmacists feeder 20 falls fed from the passage 28 and the window 29 in the fall guide path 6, is discharged from the drop hole 9 downward.

[0023] Below the drum 4, collection hopper 30 is the drug efflux is provided from falling hole 9, an outlet 31 provided at a lower portion of the hopper 30 is disposed on the center axis of the drum 4 ing. Pharmacists falling from the outlet 31 of the hopper 30 is the packing by packing device 40.

Here, the packaging device 40 is provided with a triangular plate 41 in a draw-out path of the heat-sealable packaging paper S, and the plate 4
By bending V shaped to form a bag portion between the pair of heating rolls 42 provided on a front-side and the plate member 41 a packing sheet S in the width direction by 1, pharmacists are supplied to the bag portion from the hopper outlet 31 When the paper S is sent, the pair of heating rollers 42 are rotated at the same speed as the paper S at the time of the paper feeding, and the width direction and both side edges of the folded paper S are formed into a belt shape at the same time. and the thermal fusion to <br/> so that.

The medicine agent storing and dispensing apparatus shown in embodiment consists structure described above, the apparatus operates the pharmacist feeder 20 via the control unit, fed from the tablet feeder 20
Discharging the pharmacist to fall guide path 6 of the rectangular tube body 5 from the passage 28 and the window 29, allowed dropping from falling hole 9 is dropped the fall guide path 6 on the hopper 30, are discharged from the hopper outlet 31 It is.

[0026] In taking out of medicine, such as described above, pharmacists fed from pharmacists feeder 20 all square tubular body 5 makes a successful
Falls below the guide path 6, since it is arranged coaxially with the fall guide path 6 and the hopper outlet 31, pharmacists may fall into one of a circle around the hopper outlet 31.

[0027] Therefore, it is possible to pharmacist dropped on the hopper 30 is constant discharge time until the move to the hopper outlet 31, to operate the packing apparatus 40 in accordance with the the drainage time, the packing device 40 can be operated efficiently.

The pharmacist feeder 20 by removal of the drug agent is empty or the amount of storage of pharmacists is a small amount, the interior of a drug agent from the periphery of the drum 4 to remove the drug agent accommodating case 22 of the tablet feeder 20 Replenish.

[0029] In this case, by rotating the drum 4 by the operation of the drive unit 11 is stopped at a predetermined position, and attachment and detachment of the drug agent accommodating case 22 from one location around the drum 4. Note that the driving device 11 may be omitted and the drum 4 may be rotated manually.

In the embodiment, the drum 4 is formed by a plurality of rectangular cylinders 5, but the drum 4 is not limited to this.
For example, a single-wall structure, falling guide drug inner diameter of the wall
It may be the road.

[0031]

The present invention has the following effects because it is configured as described above.

[0032] In a first aspect of the present invention, the circumferential direction to the drum, by attaching the drug agent feeder and the vertical direction, it is possible to place the drug dosage feeder densely drum rotatably Because of the support of many drugs
Respect agent feeder can be supplemented by human <br/> hand a pharmacist from around one position of the drum. Therefore, it is possible to install a pharmacist storing and dispensing device in a narrow space, it can be given a large effect on the shrink of the installation space.

A rotary support for rotatably supporting the drum
When the holding member is provided on the axis of the drum, a plurality of
Drugs discharged from the inner route are collected by a common collection hopper.
At the time, the above-mentioned rotation support portion is placed in the collection hopper.
It is necessary to penetrate the material. In this case, each fall guideway
Medicine falling into the hopper comes into contact with the rotating support member
The direction of movement changes, or stops and stays
Do not be able to move the drug to smoothly towards the outlet
It becomes.

However, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the drum
The rotation support member that rotatably supports the
Since it is provided on the outer diameter side of the drum from the
The member falls into the hopper and moves along the inner surface of the hopper
There is no inconvenience to obstruct the movement of the medicine,
The medicine can be smoothly and reliably moved toward the mouth.
Wear.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the drop plan
The medicine that falls onto the hopper from the inner path may not reach the axis of the drum.
In order to be discharged from the outlet of the moving to the lower end, can be made uniform in the discharge time of the drug agent moving from falling position on the hopper to the hopper outlet, it is possible to operate the packing apparatus efficiently.

[Brief description of the drawings]

1 is a perspective view showing a first embodiment of a drug agent storage and take-out apparatus according to the present invention

FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional front view of the above.

3 is a cross-sectional view showing an enlarged support portion of the same drug dosage feeder

[Explanation of symbols]

4 drum 6 falls guideway 11 drive unit 20 pharmacists feeder 27 pharmacists outlet 29 windows 30 hopper

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A cylindrical drum whose axis is oriented vertically.
It is supported rotatably about its axis, and the drum
Attaching a plurality of pharmacists feeder for quantitatively discharge the drug to the circumferential vertical direction in the outer peripheral surface, before Symbol drum, and pharmacists outlet communicating with the window of each tablet feeder, discharge of from the window
And a drop guide path for guiding the fall of the medicine to be dropped. A common drop of the medicine falling from each drop guide path is provided below the drum.
Collection hopper for rotatably supporting the drum.
Of the drum from the position of the drop guide path.
Pharmacists storage and take-out device provided on the outer diameter side. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the collecting hopper is connected to the falling guide path.
The tablet that falls from the
Pharmacists storing and dispensing device according to claim 1, which is configured to discharge from the outlet.